This is Mark Noonan over about B4B again talking about George Lakoff, professor of linguistics and cognitive sciences at UC Berkeley, who said the Democrats lost the election not because of policy, but because of they didn't use the right slogans.

Noonan asserts that the GOPers use straight talk to win support:

"When GOPers talk about abolishing the Death Tax, we're talking about a specific policy proposal designed to help average Americans..."

This is absolutely hilarious to me. I can form a quick list right off the top of my head that are big issues for the GOP.

When GOPers talk about partial-birth abortion, they are talking about late term abortions, which in no way involves birth...

When GOPers talk about the 2nd amendment right to bear arms, they are talking about the right of a state militia to be armed...

When GOPers talk about vouchers, they are talking about giving money to private religious schools to take kids out of public secular schools and further divide the nation between the godly and the ungodly...

When the GOPers talk about banning assisted suicide, they are talking about taking away an American's right to release themselves with some dignity from the grips of terminal illness...

When GOPers talk about the environment being a responsibility issue and not a regulatory one, they are talking about letting corporations pollute all they want and not be regulated...

When GOPers talk about privatizing [anything], they are talking about taking it out of the hands of the public and putting it into the hands of private corporations that don’t give a damn about the American public...

When GOPers talk about...well, you get the point...

Lakoff is right. The Republicans got more votes in the election because the Democrats didn’t clarify their position on anything out of an idiotic fear of voter alienation and flip flopping. They should have stressed the rampant destruction of the environment that Bush has overseen, destruction worse than any president, ever. They should have stressed that while Bush allowed outsourcing of low income jobs overseas on the premise that Americans could get more high-tech jobs here at home, he was also gutting financial aid for high-tech training, essentially leaving lower class America out of that equation. They should have stressed the idea that George W. Bush is a freaking gibbon that only reads the Christian bible and gets all his news from his puppet masters. Okay, so maybe I’m going into a rant...